Chuck Cusimano
From:
Weatherford, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2005 7:42 am |
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| I can't tell you folks how lucky I feel to have such great friends in the Music business. I have been playing Music, (Real Country Music) for thitry five years, and have made friends every place I ever lived or played. And, I get to, (and have gotten to) work with some of the Greatest Steel players ever! You may not know a lot of them because they were staying close to home and not traveling the road with a big name act, or riding in a fancy bus, But, they are, and were Super pickers! When I started out pickin with a "Full Blown" country band, it was while I was still in the U.S.Navy, and out in California around Long Beach. I remember the very first time I walked on stage to set in and sing with a local band, I called off a song that had a steel guitar entro, and it sounded so good, that I forgot to sing, and I said, "That was purty!.. Do it again." I'm not sure of names anymore, but I think it was Zed Dixon with that group. Also playing Steel in that area was Carl Walden, Bobby Boyd, and I can't remember the feller playing Steel for Billy Mize at the "Foothills Club". Then after I got into the music business, I met Junior Knight( altho I never got to play with him other than sitting in at the "Long Horn Ballroom." What a fine guy! Then in Odessa Tx. I met "Pappy " Roger Blythe, Jimmy Lathem, Dusty Stewart, and a beginner steel player , who was a virtuoso on the fiddle, Merle David (The man LOVED C-6th!)Then I moved to Lubbock where I worked with the likes of Billy Poteet, Lloyd Maines, Wilbur Keeton (You ought to hear this man play E-9th!!!), Bob Stufflebeme, L.K. Chance (Lefty),Jim Adams, Harold Aiken, Jimmy Blakley Sr., Ronnie Blakley, Rodney Giroir, Terry Marshal, Wally Moyer, Bret James, Bruce Brooks, Duane Brown, and, I'll bet there were some others that I've forgotten. Also another Lubbock Steel player I got to work with, but not back that long ago is, Baxter Vaughan. Then I'm in the Ft. Wth. area, and it's guys like, Gary Carpenter, Charlie Owens, Cecil Johnson, Ted Solesky, James Aaron, (years ago), Ray Austin, Ron Stafford, Buddie Hrabal, Jim Smith, Cecil Tippet, Ronnie Miller, Jim Loessberg, Steve Lamb, Randal Palmore, Jeff Evens, Rooster Crow, Slayton, .... I'm sure I'm leaving someone out, and it's not on purpose, I'm having a "SENIOR MOMENT", AND SO FAR IT'S LASTED TWO YEARS! ....Anyway, I feel so lucky to have so many good musicians as good friends. I Love all of you! |
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